Erige Sehiri

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Erige Sehiri
Erige Sehiri, director, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy.-1 (cropped).jpg
Sehiri in 2025
Born1 August 1982 (1982-08) (age 43)
Lyon, France
OccupationFilm director

Erige Sehiri (born 1 August 1982) is a French-Tunisian film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Life and career

Born in Lyon into a family of Tunisian origin, Sehiri grew up in the Lyon suburb of Vénissieux, in the Minguettes  [ fr ] neighborhood. [1] [2] Her father was an electrician and her mother was in charge of the kitchen at a secondary school. [2] She was a regular at the only cinema in the neighbourhood. [2] Once she got her baccalauréat, she studied English language in San Francisco and finance in Montreal, while doing a variety of part-time jobs. [2]

Returned to Europe, Sehiri found a job in a bank in Luxembourg, before becoming an assistant journalist in Jerusalem. [2] When the Tunisian revolution broke out in 2011, she moved to Tunis. [2] She shot her first short film about her father's first steps on Facebook, Le Facebook de mon père, released in 2012. [2] [3] Other short documentaries followed, until 2018, when she shot a feature-length documentary, Railway Men , about to work on the railroads; it was released in Tunisian cinemas in 2019, and in French cinemas in 2020. [4] [5]

In 2022, Sehiri made her feature film debut with Under the Fig Trees , which had its world premiere at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, at the Directors' Fortnight sidebar, and was released in cinemas in December 2022. [1] [2] The film also won the Golden Bayard at the 37th Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, and was selected as Tunisian submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. [6] [7]

In 2025, Sehiri's feature film Promised Sky premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival. [8] [9]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Cauhapé, Véronique (7 December 2022). "Les sorties cinéma de la semaine : « La Poupée », « Nos Frangins », « Falcon Lake », « Les Pires »..." Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pérez, Valentin (6 December 2022). "Pour Erige Sehiri, « Sous les figues », l'Oscar ?". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  3. ↑ Laird, Michèle (24 April 2014). "Le nouveau souffle du cinéma tunisien". SWI swissinfo (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  4. ↑ Marrouki, Meysem (21 October 2020). "«La voie normale» d'Erige Sehiri : Sortie française". La Presse de Tunisie (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "La voie normale d'Erige Sehiri : un documentaire au fil des rails". Nawaat (in French). 2 May 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2022..
  6. ↑ Engelen, Aurore (10 October 2022). "Under the Fig Trees scoops a Golden Bayard in Namur". Cineuropa . Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  7. ↑ Driss, Neila (8 September 2022). "« Sous les figues » d'Erige Sehiri représentera la Tunisie à l'Oscar 2023 du Meilleur Film International" [“Under the figs” by Erige Sehiri will represent Tunisia at the 2023 Oscar for Best International Film]. Webdo TN (in French). Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  8. ↑ Hunter, Allan (14 May 2025). "'Promised Sky' review: Follow-up to 'Under The Fig Trees' opens Un Certain Regard". Screen International . Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  9. ↑ Laffly, Tomris (15 May 2025). "'Promised Sky' Review: Erige Sehiri Delivers a Keenly Observed Migrant Drama With a Documentarian's Aesthetic". Variety . Retrieved 19 July 2025.
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